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the georgetown herald wednesday evening jan n 1 farm news page 8 insurance travel real estate walter t evans co d triangle 72512 p mill street serving your community for over 30 years fred nurse watch winner or grain macs taxi raepviilng with 2 rmoiuiptmcl cars reliable service good drivers triangle 72641 hamilton construction 160 gueiph street tr 73480 homes garages concrete work industrial requirements renovations building supplies every building need georgetown collision service maple avenue west at 7rh line georgetown 24hour towing service triangle 73790 lanes haulage for excavating and grading ponds cellars etc top sou gravel call tr 72521 j e w the awards in connection with the grain corn competition sponsjred by the halton soil crop improvement association were anounced at the an nual meeting of the association which was held in the milton town hall many halton folk have been won dering for some time who grew the 114 bushel crop of grain corn in hal ton in 1955 finally the dark secret was unveiled the winner is the past president of the halton association in the person of fred nurse of ash grove his record yield of 114 40 bus of corn at 15 per cent moisture con tent was grown from a mixture of pio neer 349 and 377a the field in which the corn was grown was plowed in the fall of 1954 out of a good alfalfa brome mixture last spring the field received an application of barnyard manure at around eight tons to the acre the crop was planted on may 18th in 36 inch rows at which time it received an application of 200 lbs of 42412 to the acre applied in bands in second place and very close was walker bros milton with a field of 113 54 bus to the acre which won john richardsons special of one bu shel of dekalb seed corn the wal ker bros crop was planted on may 16th in 40 inch rows and was of the funks g 11 variety this particular field was also in corn in 1954 when plowed it received 200 lbs of 33 per cent nitrogen and 250 lbs of 42412 per acre at planting time another 200 lbs of 41210 was sown per acre the third prize award which took with it rayner bros special of a bush el of pioneer seed corn was won by tom c foster of the lowville dis trict here the yield was 104 4 bus to the acre and was of the funks g 176 variety planted in 40 inch rows this field also grew corn in 1954 received an application of five tons of barn yard manure to the acre on may 1st the field received 200 lbs of 33 per cent nitrogen per acre and at planting time on may 20th an additional 250 lbs of 42412 per acre was applied the fourth man with over 100 bus yield was harvey nurse of ashgrove this crop of the pion ecr 377a variety was planted in 36 inch rows on may 28th the field was plowed this past spring out of sod and received an application of eight tons of barn yard manure per acre plus 200 lbs of cyanamid also plowed in at planting time an addi ttonal 250 lbs of 42412 was applied with the corn planter other awards wort as follows 5th burdge gunby millgrove 93 1 bus dekalb 240 6th geo coulson lowville 91 4 bus dekalb 56 7th brock harris lowville 60 8 bus pio neer 377a 8th dan smith and sons kilbride 80 6 bus funks gil 9th gordon hume campbellville 79 6 bus pioneer 388 10th ross harbot- tle kilbride 77 1 bus dekalb 56 these yields were based on com picked from eight rods of row in each field 2 rods at each of four places ten average ears were then selected in each field taken to the dept of field husbandry at the on tario agricultural college where the moisture percentage and shelling per centage was determined and yields calculated on a 15 per cent moisture basis the competition called for a minimum of 3 acres and naturally each competitor selected the best three acres in his field the winner fred nurse harvested his crop with a combination picker and shelter machine it was then ta ken to a drier where it was weighed in at the existing moisture basis on this basis the field averaged slightly over 99 bus per acre that my friends is quite a yield in any man language certainly all fourteen of the competitors had a lot more feed off their respective fields than they would have had had it been in oats or barley com vt oats when one notes the yields the com petitors in the gram corn competi ivcrage of 85 bus of brida secondly we have found that corn normally responds to fairly hca vy appllcatolns of commercial fertil izer true the first prize winner this year did not use as much commercial fertilizer as the majority of the com petitors however the field in ques tlon was in our opinion in a high state of fertility furthermore a good alfalfa and brome sod was turned un der along with around eight tons of manure to the acre however there are a lot of angles to the question is custom equipment available when re quired etc etc certainly we would be one of the last to want to see some of our operators on our heavy bolls jump into the growing of grain corn in our opinion it is a crop with which one should feel his way at the same time we cant help but think that the day will come when we will be grow ing more grain corn in this county that is providing we don t sell it all off for housing and industry bill booths taxi foi prompt service tr 72596 surprise gathering on 40th anniversary a surprise gathering was held at the home of mr and mrs r l dav idson to celebrated their 40th airnrr- ersary mr and mrs davidson were holding a committee meeting for the acton fair board when nearly 30 friends ar rived a social evening was spent and at lunch time a cameo locket and chain and cuff links and tie clip set were presented to the couple lion secured an avcl shelled corn to the acre it makes one wonder if we should be growing as much oats as we do in this country let us briefly compare the two crops from the standpoint of total digestive nutrients to the acre using 50 bus as an average yield for corn and 45 bus for oats corn according to morrisons feeding standards runs around 80 per cent total digestible nutrients and oats around 70 per cent on this basis a fifty bus crop of corn would give 2240 pounds of total digestible nutrients to the acre a 43 bushel crop of oats in contrast would give 1071 lbs of total digestible nutrients from the standpoint of total protein giving oats an analysis of 12 per cent against 9 6 per cent for corn we get this picture 183 lbs of protein per acre for oats and 269 lbs for corn com bas all the better of the story too when one looks at the fibre anal sis corn 2 j per cent against 106 per cent for oats back 8 or 20 years ago we did a little work on grain corn and at that time we came to the con clusion that while grain corn had a place on our more loamy soils that it was out on the heavy soils the basis for this conclusion was first those on the heavier soils did not get the yield and secondly too often the growers did not get the corn picked early en ough to enable them to get the stocks plowed under in the fall while spring plowing generally peaking is ok on our loamy and nn lighter soils we are still of the opin ion that our heavier soils must be fall plowed if we are to get a satisfactory crop the following year since that time however a lot has been learned about growing corn in the first place we now hare earlier better corn jty- jvloppets can punch the pillows scramble the sheets and bunch the blankets but when the war is over texmade is the winner long wearing beautiful texmade sheets are the choice of canadian homemakers 5 to 1 plain 6tted coloured or striped in qualities to fit every budget every bedroom in your home a showroom with texmade sheets yours for yearsj sold at bettor stores vmywher dominion textile company limited call tr 73271 tr 72674 for your construction needs concrete work footings cellar floors sidewalks block work brick laying carpentry homes kitchens remodeling garages bathrooms modernizing mcnally construction elgin street near cnr station ask about the convenient fuel oil payment plans bill bailey the oil man georgetown tr 72888 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